Author: Daiches, Davird
Title: Was - A Pastime From Time Past
Description: Thames & Hudson, 1975, 1st edition. Imitation cloth, dj, VG/VG. 223pp, flaps of the dustjacket yellowed, offsetting to the title from a newspaper clipping that has been laid in, otherwise a fine copy. Hardback with dustjacket. ISBN: 0500011265 ¶ A study of the author's childhood in Edinburgh, described on the dustjacket flap as being 'about the way in which the verbally sensitive imagination of a Rabbi's son in Ebinburgh is simultaneously involved with the past & present of Edinburgh & of Scotland and with the past of his own Jewish ancestors who strech back to the Bible'. David Daiches [ 1912 - 2005 ] Scottish literary historian and literary critic.

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